Executed Quotes

176 quotes by 162 authors

The death penalty fulfills a preventive function, but it is also very clearly a form of revenge. It is an especially severe form of punishment… — Dalai Lama
If you fall out of favor, you quickly stop being part of the conversation. But it can take one great project to turn things around.… — Chris O'Donnell
Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if they were executed… — John Maynard Keynes
There is one view of the subject which ought to have its influence on those who espouse doctrines which strike at the authoritative origin and… — James Madison
The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings,… — George Washington
Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who… — Harry S. Truman
The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often. — Edward Abbey
A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill… — Alexander Hamilton
I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam, — Charles Babbage
Blogging is good for your career. A well-executed blog sets you apart as an expert in your field. — Penelope Trunk
I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a body found in… — Michael Connelly
Hitler's dictatorship was the first of an industrial estate in this age of modern technology, a dictatorship which employed to perfection the instruments of technology… — Albert Speer
I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken; and to the extent of my ability I shall… — Abraham Lincoln
Butler is branded a felon, an outlaw, an enemy of Mankind, and so ordered that in the event of his capture, the officer in command… — Jefferson Davis
The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because… — Honore de Balzac
Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer. — Andrea Dworkin
It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be… — Frederick Forsyth
...I got a call from a record company offering me a contract, I did not want to take it because the Lord had pointed me… — Alice Coltrane
The BIBLE - banned, burned, beloved.Â More widely read, more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have attempted to discredit… — Charles Colson
Concentrate on the correct movement each time you exercise, lest you do them improperly and thus lose all the vital benefits. Correctly executed and mastered… — Joseph Pilates

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